Apologists say The weather’s just a cycle we can’t change Scientists say We’ve pushed those cycles way beyond Dear leaders, please do something quick Time is up, the planet’s sick But hey, we’ll all be grateful One fine day? Today the North West Passage just got found Three penguins and a bear got drowned The ice they lived on disappeared Seems things are worse than some had feared

It’s the same ol’ song from the rich and famous or, as some would say, “our betters.”

Only Sting’s eco-hypocrisy may be on par with Leonardo DiCaprio and James Cameron. And that’s saying something.

Let’s look at Sting’s largesse. British papers have reported on his lavish lifestyle, which hardly meshes with his environmental message. Imagine the energy required to pay Sting’s bills.

He keeps no fewer than four homes in Britain with his wife, Trudie Styler, including the 800 acre Lake House estate in Wiltshire.

The home has 14 bedrooms and 8 baths.

He also has a beach house in Malibu, an estate in Tuscany, a million pound home in New York and a love for 4×4 cars.

Last year, his former cook Jane Martin told an employment tribunal how “opulent extravagance reigned” at the home, and there was “no regard to cost, expense or wastage” of food or drink.

That doesn’t take into account his rock lifestyle. That same year, Sting’s band The Police topped the list of groups with the largest carbon footprint.

He once scored a highly profitable licensing fee for Jaguar to promote its gas-guzzling line with his hit song “Desert Rose.”

Earlier in his career he copped to jetting back home after each of his concerts. His Rainforest Foundation has earned terrible ratings in the past for the amount of money it actually pours into its various causes.

Times change, though. Three years after those Daily Mail revelations he told reporters none of that really matters until deforestation issues are put under control.

Now, he’s singing about our dying earth and what we need to do to save it. For all his eco-lectures and work on behalf of Mother Earth, he could start by practicing what he preaches. If only a little.

At his point, what difference can it possibly make. The science is definitely settled.

“Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.”

—“President ‘has four years to save Earth’,” the London Guardian, January 17, 2009.

rusty57

Very few celebrity ecotards walk-the-walk.

Johnny Jones

three penguins and a bear got drowned ?

Robert Wagner

This hypocrisy is epic. It is really unfortunate these people don’t use their influence to actually do something good. There are real environmental problems out there and fighting the war on carbon isn’t one of them.